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ACHARYA HARIBHADRA'S COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN YOGA 141
develops personality and attracts others. He is now engrossed in spiritual contemplation and has his mind firmly concentrated on the virtues. The world now loses all attraction for him.70
The seventh drați is known as prabhd. The soul has now developed the capacity for self-concentration and is free from all mental disturbances. It has now achieved peace of mind (sama). The soul has now fully developed the power of discrimination." It now practises spiritual discipline without any ulterior motive (asañgänusthäna). It is now in the seventh stage of spiritual development and is preparing to rise up to the eighth stage on the ladder of annihilation. The soul is now marching on the great path (mahapathaprayāṇa) which leads to the place from which one does never return (anāgāmipadāvaha). Haribhadra remarks that this drsti is known as praśäntävähita in the Sankhya system, as visabhäga-pariksaya in the Buddhist school, as sivavartman in the Saiva system, and as dhruvädhvan according to the Mahāvratikas.72
We now come to the eighth dṛṣṭi called para. The soul is now completely free from all attachment to the world. It now achieves ecstasy (samadhi), the consummation of dhyana. The activities of the soul in this stage are free from all transgressions of the vows, and as such are pure and perfect. The soul now dissociates itself from all the acquired virtues and has its purpose fulfilled. This occurs in the ninth stage of spiritual development. The soul then gradually attains omiscience on the annihilation of all the obscuring karmans. Now the final emancipation is attained by means of the last yoga known as ayoga.**
Haribhadra distinguishes four types of yogins, viz., gotrayogin, kulayogin, pravṛttacakrayogin, and nispannayogin. The yogins of the fourth. type have already achieved their objective and so do not need any instruction in yoga. It is only the yogins of the second and the third type that need instruction.75
70. Ibid., 160-2.
71. Ibid., 168-9. 72. Ibid., 173-4.
73. Ibid., 179.
74. Ibid., 184.
75. Ibid., 206-7 with Svopajñavṛtti. About the definitions of these types see ibid., 208-210.
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